Tool-support



' H. F. HAENSLER.

TOOL SUPPORT.

CATION FILED MAY 21.1919.

1,341,848. A PatentedJ une 1, 1920.

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HENRY F. I-IAENSLER, 0F DETROIT, MICHIGAN. y

TOOL-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 1, 1920.

Application led May 21, 1919. Serial No. 298,720.

To all 107mm t may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. HAENSLER, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Detroit, in the county of lVayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and Improved Tool-Support, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a device for holding tools such as drills, taps, counterbores or the like, the purpose being to provide a device which is neat and inexpensive, and which holds the several tools in proper relation to each other to prevent contact and to permit ready access by the user.

The invention will be best understood from the drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the preferred embodiment; Fig. 2 is a plan view, the tools being removed; Fig. 3 is a section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2, the counterbore being reversed in position and having a pilot passing through the holder; and Fig. 4 is a s'ection on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

The holder, which may be of any hard metal suitable for die casting, comprises a thin body or top l having extending downwardly'therefrom the diverging legs 2 and the edge flanges 3. At properly spaced points within thel limits of the top, the latter is offset downwardly and cast to form sockets 4-5-6-7-8-9 (six in number in the construction shown), wherein the bases or shanks of the tools are received. Suitable inscriptions, indicating the nature of the particular .tool which is to be kept in a given socket, may be cast in the upper face of the body.

For example, in the particular construction shown (a drill, counterbore and tap outfit), the socket t is marked Body and is intended to receive the shank of a drill l0 whereby the body of the desired hole is to be formed; and the socket 5 is marked Tap and is adapted to hold the drill 11 for the end or bottom portion of the hole which is to be threaded. Sockets 6-7-8 likewise carry taps 12 for tapping out or threading the hole formed by the drill 11, being marked with the size and number of threads to the inch-thus 5g x 18, in the device shown; and socket 9-designated CRB-is ofI a size and shape such as to receive either the shank or the cutting end of a counterbore 13 which will properly enlarge the hole formed by the drill l0 to a size suficient to receivefthe head of a screw of the same diameter. The counterbore may be held as shown in Fig. l, or in the reverse position, Fig. 3, in which case the pilot 14 (not shown in Fig. l) passes dow-n through the open bottom of the socket.

In use, several of the holders, marked :for diiferent sizes of tools, are assembled on a suitable wooden or other backing or stand (not shown). The stock-keeper is thus enabled to supply the tool-maker with the correct size of tools rapidly and accurately, and the likelihood of the tool-makers using a wrong size of drill or tap is rendered negligible. The device is exceedingly cheap, being readily made complete by the single act of die-casting, and insures the holding of the tools in such manner that the various cutting edges are properly protected.

Moreover, the holder constitutes in effect v a gage for the several tools, since the openings 45` 789 correspond accurately only to the` sizes of the shanks of the corresponding tool. That is, it is not possible for the stock-keeper to place a tool larger than intended in a particular hole, and in the event a smaller tool is placed therein it will at once become evident on account of its looseness.

Various other kits of tools may, of course, be held in the same general way, the lettering on the holder being changed to suit the particular purpose.

I claim A cast metal holder for a set of tools having a thin top and a set of sockets integral with the top and of substantially the same thickness and extending down from the top, said top being marked to indicate the adaptability of the individual sockets for holding a particular tool of a set which lits therein, being all the tools of the set relating to a particular size of screw whose characteristics are indicated by ligures on said top, and legs integral with the top to support the same.

E. HAENSLER. 

